It appears that peace is coming to Gaza, the hostages are being returned to Israel, and Hamas is disarming. The Free Press, with its paywall down for this week, has a whole series of stories about the Legacy of Oct. 7. Charles Lipson at The Spectator asks, has Israel won? Michael Oren at Clarity calls this dealmaking process an astonishing moment in diplomacy.
And there’s the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, learning its decision to honor a Venezuelan democracy activist (instead of the obvious but politically incorrect choice) has a final twist – the winner dedicated her prize to the people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his support of their cause. Trump himself couldn’t have trolled that one any better.
This past week was the 186th anniversary of the death of one of America’s most distinctive writing voices – Edgar Allan Poe. Jason Clark at This is the Day considers the mysterious nature of Poe’s death, which almost sounds like one of his short stories. Ed Simon at Literary Hub discusses elements of Americanism (or its opposite) that can be found in Poe’s works.
Speaking of Americanism, Mark Malvasi at The Imaginative Conservative looks at The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, arguing that the story represents a darkening of the American vision.
More Good Reads
America 250
A Revolution Both Radical and Conservative – Yuval Levin at The Coolidge Review.
Jean Thurel: Ninety Years a Private Soldier – Norman Desmarais at Journal of the American Revolution.
British Stuff
Why can’t the Church of England stand up for Jews? – The Critic Magazine.
Life and Culture
In the ruins of Rome – D.C.R. Austen at Sacramentality.
Character in Absurd Times – Joshua Heavin at Mere Orthodoxy.
The Right Way to Fight Anti-Semitism – Christopher Rufo.
News Media
The Future of the Free Press – Bari Weiss.
Bari Weiss faces a ‘snake pit’ as she eyes overhaul of left-leaning CBS News: insiders – Alexandra Steigrad at the New York Post.
Writing and Literature
Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft.
Why Writers Get Lost in Research (And How to Find Your Way Back) – Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach.
Macbeth’s brief candle – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.
Writing is Thinking – Spencer Klavan at Rejoice Evermore.
Poetry
The Many Lives of Milton’s Paradise Lost – Stephen Schuler at Front Porch Republic.
“Tales of a Wayside Inn (opening),” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
“I Come Singing,” poem by Joseph Auslander – Poems Ancient and Modern.
“Everness,” poem by Jorge Luis Borges – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
Faith
How Islam and the Bible are fueling France’s ‘baptism boom’ – Luke Coppen at The Spectator.
Why Is John’s Gospel So Different from the Others? – Denny Burk.
Somewhere (from West Side Story) – Cormac Thompson
Painting: Girl Reading, oil on canvas (1901) by Mary McEvoy (1870-1941).
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